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10 The Healthy Carolinians 2000 Task Force Like many communities across the state and nation,yours is considering to launch a health improvement program.We believe that individuals and families are the key to your success;only through their commitment to live longer,healthier lives can a community achieve improved health.We also believe that people are more likely to work toward objectives that they have set for themselves.By developing a Healthy Carolinians 2000 Task Force,your com- munity will be able to estabish the community-based objectives necessary to improve its health. The Healthy Carolinians 2000 Task Force will: • Inform local leaders about health problems that can be improved by wellness promo- tion and disease prevention. • Create an ongoing,community-oriented process for priority setting and action plan- ning. • Select and tailor objectives from the list recommended by the state level Task Force. • Serve as the conduit for funding of cooperative health promotions. Healthy Carolinians 2000 activates the community to work in a concerted,collaborative approach It usually involves the following steps: • Organizing a community group. • Collecting and analyzing data. • Identifying health problems and setting priorities or targeting problems. • Identifying relevant community resources and barriers. • Developing an action plan. • Starting the action plan. • Assessing or evaluating progress. Several models for the community exist including traditional community development models, the Assessment Protocol of Excellence in Public Health (APEX PH) and the Planned Approach to Community Health (PATCH) (See Appendix 7 and 8).Remember that working with the community is an art and science requiring a functional community group that main- tains creativity and consensus building. I